Race on 29th Jumping 28th U13 Athletics Leinster Juvenile Championships 2nd place sprint and jump He got top 4 went nationals. Are you nervous? : no Where is your competition gonna be? : Athlone which is a 2 hour drive Shoe rules? : If you wear spikes, the spikes have to be at least 5mm Do you have a warm ...
by Zane Ali Last Friday the pupils from 6th class of our school were given the opportunity to go to the Irish Military War Museum for WWI and WWII at Starinagh, Collon, County Meath. The museum brought a variety of interesting facts, weapons and machinery for the students to learn from. The WWI section showcased a replica of the trenches, ...
The Confirmation by Alex Mc Fadden and Conor Norman Photos courtesy of Paula Kavanagh Photography On March 5th 2026 the children of 6th class who are of the Roman Catholic faith went to St Fursey`s church to be confirmed by Christ into the catholic church. The mass started at 11am until 1pm lasting around 2 hours. During this ...
By Sophie Talbot, 6th Class Mr. McShane, who teaches Sixth class this year, took up teaching basketball to the fifth class last year when he was teaching them. Mr. Shepperd was the other basketball coach. This year they very generously agreed to teach Fifth again. They coached them over a five week period. They took turns taking them out every ...
by Conor Norman On Wednesday the 11th February the two of St. Francis NS chess teams, Zane’s House and The Queen’s Gambit, went to a chess tournament in the Friary center. There were 6 games and many different schools taking part including St Francis NS, St Oliver Plunkett NS,, St. Malachys Boys and St. Malachys Girls. The 6 games spanned ...
by Sebastian Roland The Connet Credit Union quiz took place on the 11th of February and started at 10:30am at the Fairways hotel, Dundalk. There were teams submitted from lots of the local schools and we all sat on tables of 4 in the conference room. There were two teams from St Francis, an Under 11 team and an Under ...
by Jaylan Inman, 6th Class Phoenix Rising is a dance group run by Cassandra Pinto at the Family Redeemer Center. Phoenix Rising started two years ago and several of the children in the group are pupils of St Francis NS. Recently Phoenix Rising represented St Francis N.S, for the TLT School Stars Talent Show, where all students sign up ...
As part of Irish Catholic Schools Week we celebrated Grandparent's Day at St Francis in Wednesday 21st January. Due to our numbers and the shortage of space, we were unfortunately not able to extend an invitation to every grandparent to join us in school - much as we would have loved to have them celebrate with us in person. However, in ...
Introduction 6th class pupils recently went to the Dundalk museum to learn about a variety of historic artefacts and construct a small St. Brigids cross accessory that would later be put on to a large cross on display in the museum. Prior mentioned artefacts us students learned about were things like bronze age tools, ancient Egyptian artefacts, great inventors from ...
Pupils from 5th Class enjoyed their first lunchtime Scratch Coding Club yesterday with Mrs Cooney. For the next 10 weeks these lucky pupils will be practicing and progressing their digital skills in an effective and fun way. At the end of the course they hope to submit a project to the Scratch National Competition, supported by the Irish Computer Society (ICS) and Lero ...
